The chief of the Ajmer dargah has said that he will not welcome Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Saturday when he comes visiting. ...
05:49 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Syed Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, the chief of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chisti Dargah in Ajmer, has announced the boycott of Pakistani Prime Minister Pervez Ashraf, who is scheduled to visit shrine of Sufi saint on Saturday. The Dargah chief said that the boycott has been announced to protest against the beheading of Indian soldiers at the Line of Control. ...
04:42 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has called for "stern action" against all banned militant groups, saying attacks like the recent bombing of a Shia neighbourhood in Karachi were aimed at weakening Pakistan's social fabric. ...
01:10 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf is scheduled to visit Ajmer sharif on Saturday. Before his pilgrimage, he will have lunch with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in Jaipur. ...
05:29 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf will come to India on a private visit this Saturday on a pilgrimage to Ajmer Sharif, official sources said. ...
09:30 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf will visit India on Saturday to offer prayers at the Sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer though no official meetings have been lined up so far, sources said on Tuesday. This is likely to be Ashraf's last foreign visit before the term of his government ends on March 16. ...
01:00 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Power was restored in cities across Pakistan on Monday morning after the collapse of national grid Sunday night, plunging most of the country into darkness for several hours. ...
02:49 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Arguing that the unresolved Kashmir issue poses a threat to the region and the world, Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Tuesday asked the international community to push India to resolve the lingering dispute. ...
04:27 AM, Feb 06, 2013
The body of a Pakistani investigator, probing a corruption case involving Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and found hanging in December, has been exhumed from his grave for investigation, a media report said. A murder case was earlier registered in the death of Kamran Faisal, assistant director of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), assisting in the corruption scandal involving Ashraf. ...
03:35 PM, Feb 03, 2013
Pakistan's powerful army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani held a two-hour meeting with Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf against the backdrop of consultations within the ruling coalition on dissolving parliament ahead of the next general election expected to be held in May. ...
02:11 PM, Jan 31, 2013
A senior anti-graft investigator, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances while probing corruption charges against Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, had apparently committed suicide, Pakistani police has told the Supreme Court. ...
02:15 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Amidst growing speculation about the schedule for Pakistan's next general election, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Wednesday said his government is committed to holding free and fair polls "within couple of months". ...
12:26 AM, Jan 24, 2013
A senior Pakistani investigator probing graft charges involving Premier Raja Pervez Ashraf was found dead in mysterious circumstances at his official accommodation in Islamabad on Friday, with his relatives alleging that he may have been murdered. Kamran Faisal, an Assistant Director of the National Accountability Bureau, was found hanging from a fan in his room at the Federal Lodges in Islamabad, police officials said. ...
04:28 AM, Jan 19, 2013
A cleric who has been pushing for electoral reforms in Pakistan will resort to street protests aqain if the government does not abide by an agreement that eased a political crisis, an aide said on Friday. ...
04:09 PM, Jan 18, 2013
The Pakistan government has constituted a high-powered four-member committee to hold talks with Sufi cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri. This came as Qadri's deadline to the government to act on his demands came to an end. ...
03:40 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Pakistan's anti-corruption chief refused an order by the country's top court to arrest the prime minister in a graft case on Thursday, saying he did not have sufficient evidence. The government and the Supreme Court have repeatedly clashed over the last year, and the chief justice's demand on Tuesday that Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf be arrested set the stage for a new round of political crisis in Pakistan, a ...
01:55 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Pakistan's anti-corruption chief refused an order by the country's top court to arrest the prime minister in a graft case on Thursday, saying he did not have sufficient evidence. ...
12:25 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, facing arrest in a corruption case, has convened a meeting of coalition parties of the government to discuss the politician situation in the country. ...
12:17 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Even as the Pakistan Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in connection with the power scam, the man making it worse for Ashraf is Sufi cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri who continues to lead a 'million man' march against the government. Qadri, however, refuses to have any backing from the Pakistani army and says he is not trying to topple the government but pushing for electoral reforms. ...
11:49 AM, Jan 17, 2013
To Pakistan's ruling party, a firebrand cleric camped outside parliament with thousands of protesters is looking more and more like the harbinger of their worst fear: a plan by the military to engineer a "soft coup". In their eyes, Muhammad Tahirul Qadri seems like the perfect candidate for such a mission. A practised orator who has electrified crowds with his anti-corruption rhetoric, the doctor of Islamic law leapt into action...
11:09 AM, Jan 17, 2013
